Ramming, Shields, and the
Nemesis Fallacy

In Star Trek: Nemesis, we get to observe the
Enterprise-E rip Shinzon's Scimitar a new one as, in an act of 'confident
desperation', Picard orders the ramming of the Reman Warbird.

Ramming
events are not a new thing in Star Trek. We've seen incidents of ramming,
feigned ramming, and so on throughout all the series except TOS. One
curious thing about the Nemesis ramming, though, is that the Scimitar was, a
mere two minutes before the incident, reported by Geordi to still have 70%
shielding in place. However, no shields, nor any effect that would suggest
shielding, was seen.

And thus, one is faced
with a question . . . what effect, if any, did the shields have? Were they
still up two minutes later, or were they down? If they were down,
why?

Two things ought to be done
in order to answer those questions. First, we'll take a look at prior
shield impact and ramming events, to see what we know and can determine about
prior canonical representations of such events. Then, we'll look at
Nemesis, specifically, to see what was going on during that particular
situation.

The following incidents are, to my knowledge, a complete listing of
ramming and large-scale physical shield impact events in the Star Trek canon. (If you
know of any others or if I missed one, please let me know).

If you'd rather not slog through the scene descriptions and pics, you can
jump to the Recap.

Example Group I:

(Examples known to involve shields)

1. "Datalore"[TNG1]: The Crystalline Entity makes
contact with the Enterprise-D shields. As is made clear in the episode,
the shields would have to be brought down completely for the entity to
"eat" the life aboard.

As
can be seen, the shields visibly glow as a result of the entity brushing against
them.

2. "The
Hunted"[TNG3]: Roga Danar bounces a small Angosian vessel off of
the Enterprise-D shields as a diversion.

The shields flash blue briefly, but
are indeed visible (indeed, a dim bubble around the ship is observable), when impact with the
unshielded vessel occurs.

3. "Relics"[TNG6]: The Jenolan (spelled as per the
Okudagram) was used by Scotty and Geordi to brace the Dyson Sphere doors open
long enough to allow the Enterprise-D to escape.

The ship's shields held (barely)
against the door and door mechanisms that Geordi believed could "crush this
ship like an egg", sparkling and flaring the entire time.

4. "Preemptive Strike"[TNG7]: Picard orders Data to allow
Ro's "trick" of flying through a claimed burp in the shields.

The shields glow as the Maquis ship is
allowed to pass through.

5. "A Call To Arms"[DS9-5]: A Cardassian vessel's
suicide run against the station results in the ship's destruction against the
shields.

DS9's exact shield configuration in
this episode is something of a mystery (there's a bubble around the habitat ring
and central core as seen above, but around the docking ring and crossover
bridges any shields would have to be conformal, judging by the interaction with
weapons). Nevertheless, one can see quite well that the ramming incident
produces a visible shield glow.

6. "The Raven"[VOY4]: Seven of Nine uses her shuttle to ram
three Bomar ships as part of her escape.

The shields of the shuttle are quite visible even in the
aftermath of the impact, and the Bomar ship's shields are also seen.

7. "Drive"[VOY7]: The Delta Flyer ends up
"scraping" shields at least twice with Assan's vessel, and once with
Irina's . . . and we hear reports of Assan colliding with her several additional
times. In the case of the Flyer, her first scraping incident produces
shield glow effects as seen elsewhere, and her second (and third) scrape against
the ships of Assan and Irina produces the following effect, similar to the one
seen earlier:

Now, in the case of the above shot, Torres had reversed the
deflector polarity in order to repel the other vessel's shields. Arguably,
it might be a non-standard event . . . but it looks an awful lot like the
others, as well as the non-technobabbled scrape seen earlier. Also note
that scraping shields is identified by Paris as an old Academy trick.

8. Star Trek: Generations: The Duras sisters'
photon torpedoes produced a glow area in the Enterprise-D's shields as they
penetrated. Torpedoes are shielded objects, so this would
count as a shield-shield interaction event.

9. Star Trek: Nemesis:
When a flying piece of a destroyed Valdore Class Warbird struck the Enterprise's port
saucer, bouncing to collide against the port nacelle, the shields visibly
glowed:

Example Group
II:

(Events involving questionable or negative shield
status)

1. "Cause and
Effect"[TNG5]: At the Typhon Expanse, the Enterprise-D encounters
what Worf refers to as a highly-localized distortion in the space-time
continuum. This proved to be primarily a special temporal distortion that,
when it fluctuated, disabled the ship's main power, shields, and other
systems. Most importantly, it spat out the 90 year old starship Bozeman on
a collision course. If the ships collided, the explosion would result in a
temporal causality loop . . . the events leading up to the explosion, in other
words, would repeat almost precisely. We get to see the collision occur
more than once, and there is no evidence of shielding . . . which is logical,
since Worf reports shields are inoperative in at least one loop, and the
temporal distortion's effects on the ship were consistent throughout.

The
Enterprise was trapped in the loop for 17.4 days, which, given the repeat of
what seemed to be about 12 hours of activity from poker game to collision, means
that the Bozeman collided with the Enterprise over 30 times, and caused the
destruction of the ship on each occasion.

2. "The Jem'Hadar"[DS9-2]: The destruction of the Odyssey by
Jem'Hadar kamikaze is unaccompanied by any shield effect. Earlier in
the battle, though, we saw Captain Keogh divert shield power when they proved
useless in this first encounter with Dominion polaron beams, rendering the
unfortunate lack of shields unsurprising. The shields were not up.
As Sisko puts it, the Jem'Hadar were just trying to show the Federation how far
they were willing to go.

3. "Sacrifice of
Angels"[DS9-6]: A Klingon Bird of Prey is damaged by fire from a
Jem'Hadar warship in the final scene we see of the battle. A wing is
lost, and the out-of-control BoP collides with a Jem'Hadar battleship. The
battleship's bow was already in the process of disintegrating due to enemy fire,
so this is evidently a collision of two unshielded ships:

4. "Tears of the Prophets"[DS9-6]:
Against an apparently-fresh, numerically-superior force of Klingon ships, the Jem'Hadar kamikaze maneuvers were
quite successful, performed without impediment. No shield glow was present
on some of the Klingon ships, though others did show one. (See Objections)

The length of time between the opening of combat with the
Jem'Hadar and the collision events is not clear. When we first see the
battle, the ships are already well within visual range (which, given the
diminutive nature of Jem'Hadar fighters, isn't going to be long), and firing is
occurring from both sides. Given
canonical weapons ranges, this offers plenty of time for additional exchanges of
fire, in which case one could suppose that the Klingon ships which were rammed
were those without shields. This is further supported by the fact that, at
the time of the rammings, some Klingon ships have maneuvered around and behind
the Jem'Hadar ships, and the bugs were losing parts to Klingon weapons
fire.

In any event, the rammings and combat
"disable or destroy" 15 of Martok's starships, according to Martok.

4a.
"Tears of the Prophets"[DS9-6]: A damaged Klingon Bird-of-Prey collides with one of the Cardassian defense platforms of the Chin'toka system,
shearing off the BoP's wing and perhaps damaging the platform.

As
you can see, there is no shield effect present on the platform, which
demonstrated gold-colored bubble shields against all weapons fire. I
say that the platform is "perhaps" damaged since we don't see any
damage, and almost all the debris which flies past is of a Klingon green color.
On the other hand, the platform is enshrouded by explosion by the next frame
after the above one, and its orientation swings rather severely in the direction
of the Bird of Prey.

It
isn't perfectly clear what's going on here shield-wise, though, since the
weapons fire of the Bird of Prey causes a different shield effect pattern . . .
in all other shots (those powerful Romulan disruptors, Galaxy Class phasers, et
cetera) the shields disappeared instantly when the weapons fire stopped hitting
it. However, against this dinky Bird of Prey, the shields continued to
shimmer and flicker even after the last shot, suggesting possible
failure. Even if we assume the platform was destroyed, one wonders
whether the shields were even up.

This question seems
answered by the next event from the same episode:

4b.
"Tears of the Prophets"[DS9-6]: Once again, a Bird of Prey gets
beaten down. Debris from the ship rains down on the shielded asteroid
powering the weapons platforms, disintegrating against it. The most
noteworthy piece of disintegrating debris is the starboard wing of the Klingon
ship, nicely visible in the lower right on the last three of the following
images of the event:

The
sparkly shield effect (not unlike the mottled sparklies of the shuttlecraft
shields in "The Raven", and just like the weapons fire dissipation
effect on the weapons platforms) is quite visible in this impact scene, and was
also visible in the weapons fire against the asteroid. This suggests that,
in reference to the BoP-platform collision, either the impact was between ship
and shield with no damage to the platform (with the shield impact glow presumably
clouded by the BoP's wing explosion), or the shield was down altogether.

(Technically,
this particular example belongs in the first group, but I place it with the
other examples from the same episode for clarity.)

5.
"What You Leave Behind"[DS9-7]: A re-use of the CGI elements from
"Tears of the Prophets" of the Dominion ships ramming three Klingon
ships. As this occurs well into the battle, we once again have the
option of taking a good guess at the Klingon vessels' shield status.
Also note that, once again, at least one of the Dominion ships was damaged by
weapons fire from a Bird of Prey before impact, reinforcing the shieldlessness.

6.
"Year of Hell"[VOY4] (alternate timeline): After almost a
year of being kicked around like a soccer ball, Voyager and allies attack
Annorax's temporal weapon-ship. Sabotaged from the inside, the
weapon-ship's temporal core is disabled, causing it to fall back into normal
space-time. Voyager and fleet suffer badly against the weapon-ship's
conventional arsenal, which seems to pass right through the reconfigured
"temporal shields":

A
fierce volley from the weapon-ship directly hits the alien cruiser above
Voyager, damaging it severely and causing it to list into the Voyager
shipwreck. The ships scrape hulls directly, with no shield effects seen
(temporal shields were seen to be a bubble in Part One). Moments later,
the entire fleet has been disabled, as reported by Tuvok. This,
however, is not an instance of total shield failure on the part of the ships,
since Janeway orders the fleet to take its temporal shields offline at this
point. Were these normal shields, one would expect disabled vessels to
have experienced shield failure already.

In any
event, Janeway's order was made so the timeline will be restored (hopefully)
when she does this:

6a. "Year of Hell"[VOY4]
(alternate timeline):

The
battered starship, with all the apparent structural integrity of a crumpled wad
of paper, rams into the weapon-ship. Once again, no shield effects
are seen, which on the Voyager side is not surprising . . . Janeway ordered
shields dropped. It is not known whether the weapon-ship had conventional
shielding, however, since its primary defense was normally to exist outside
normal space-time. This, then, would seem to be an instance of collision
between two unshielded objects.

II.3
- "Sacrifice
of Angels"[DS9-6]: A collision of two shieldless objects shows no
glow. (PP-nG)

II.4
- "Tears
of the Prophets"[DS9-6]:

Ramming by ships, at
least one of which is shieldless, against ships of uncertain shield status
produces no glow. (xP-nG)

A
collision by a shieldless ship against an object that ought to produce glow
against collision shows nothing definite glow-wise. (It may have lost
shields, as seen by the shield's behavior before impact, or else the explosion
around the small object may have obscured our ability to observe any expected
shield glow.) (SP-x or PP-nG)

An
unshielded object's collision against a shielded object produces a shield
glow. (SP-G)

II.5 - "What You Leave
Behind"[DS9-7]: Ramming by ships, at least one of which is shieldless,
against ships of uncertain shield status produces no glow. (xP-nG)

I.6
- "The
Raven"[VOY4]: A shield interaction against another shielded object
produces a glow. (SS-G)

PP-nG:
3
(noShield-noShield interaction produces no glow in three cases (no surprise),
not counting the extra 30 of CaE)

Px-nG:
1
(The Odyssey ramming . . . no shields on Odyssey, and the JH bug exploded too
quickly to see if its conformal shields, if even up, produced a glow.)

xP-nG:
2
(Collisions involving one shieldless object and an object of uncertain shield
status produce no glow on two occasions. Note, however, that both of the
xP-nG cases (ToTP and WYLB, especially) involve defending ships that have been
in fleet combat for some time, so these are likely PP-nG events.)

SS-nG:
1
(A collision between two shielded objects produces no glow in one case . . .
both ships are known to have reconfigured for temporal shielding, meaning
these are not standard shields)

As you can see, in all
ten instances where we know that a ship has standard shielding, an impact with
something (whether shielded or not) produces a glow. In the four instances where we know the defender has no shields, there is no glow on the
defender's part.

In
short, one can see the clear pattern . . . if there's a shield on the defender's
ship, we're gonna see it. (This is similar to forcefields on the interior
of starships, which invariably glow when touched, even in TOS or ENT.)The only exceptions would be in regards to a
shield that we simply can't see due to something obscuring it, or shields that
are configured in a peculiar way and thus seem to have no effect in regards to
conventional weapons or impact.

Now
that we've thoroughly considered these prior cases, let's take a look at
Nemesis.

As mentioned previously, two minutes
before the ramming occurred the Scimitar was said to have 70% shielding.
Let's take a closer look at the events before the ramming (in screen time),
paying particular attention to the shields. The moment of contact between
the ships will be considered to be Time Zero (T).

T
minus 17 minutes, 20 seconds: The battle begins.

T
minus 14 minutes, 25 seconds: Shinzon, via holographic proxy,
tries to get Picard to lower shields and allow himself to be beamed to the
Scimitar.

T
minus 9 minutes, 42 seconds: The wing section slams into the
port side of the saucer, and then bounces to hit the port nacelle.
Shields flare in the struck areas.

T
minus 9 minutes, 38 seconds: Data reports forward shields
down to 10%. As these were not the shields that were hit, and given the
Scimitar's likely location (it had been right behind the clipped Warbird on the
Enterprise's port side, gaining rapidly), we must assume this was due to
Scimitar weapons fire from ahead of the E-E. In any case, Riker orders
"bring us about."

T
minus 8 minutes, 40 seconds: Shinzon, having partially
dropped his cloak and lured Donatra in, disables her ship with a fierce volley
of weapons fire. He is now left to concentrate on the Enterprise.

T
minus 7 minutes, 0 seconds: Data reports structural integrity
loss on decks 12-17, sections 4-10, after another series of hits from the
Scimitar. Emergency forcefields are put in place (Geordi reports that
they're holding just four seconds after Data's report), and then those areas are
evacuated with forcefield power to be rerouted to forward shields.

T
minus 6 minutes, 16 seconds: Quantum torpedoes, targeted by
Deanna, strike the Scimitar's forward upper areas. A run by the Enterprise
continues to pummel that area. A running firefight ensues, the
Enterprise's rear weapons firing on the Scimitar's bow and vice-versa.

T
minus 5 minutes, 35 seconds: Part of the background chatter
is a voice saying "impulse out". This is the same voice that
will later report the impulse engines restored. Data reports ventral
shield loss, leaving the lower deck of the Engineering section exposed.
Though Picard orders power diverted to compensate, Reman troops board the ship.

T
minus 3 minutes, 8 seconds: A volley of fire from the
Scimitar includes a hit to the bridge, resulting in its brief exposure to space
before the forcefield appears.

Now
we're close to the fun part . . .

T
minus 2 minutes, 21 seconds: Picard asks for a report. T minus 2 minutes, 20 seconds: Data
responds: "We have exhausted our complement of photon
torpedoes. Phasers banks are down to 4%, sir."T minus 2 minutes, 15 seconds: Picard:
"What if we targeted all our phasers in a concentrated pattern?"T minus 2 minutes, 12 seconds: Geordi:
"The Scimitar's shields are still at 70%. It would make no
difference, captain." Geordi reports this off of a screen which
shows a top view of the Scimitar. It has a complete oval shape around it,
even though the Scimitar has hull-hugging conformal shielding like the
Enterprise-E.

T minus 2 minutes, 0 seconds: Everyone
starts to notice, out of the new bridge window, that the Scimitar is just
hovering in front of them. Deanna asks "what's he doing?",
and Picard figures out that Shinzon "wants to look me in the eye.
We've got him! He thinks he knows exactly what I'm going to do."T minus 1 minute, 29 seconds: Picard:
"Geordi, divert all power to the engines. Take it from life support
if you have to . . . give me everything you've got."T minus 1 minute, 21 seconds: One of the
bridge chatterers says "Impulse power capability's been
restored." A moment later, Geordi reports "Ready, Captain."T minus 1 minute, 4 seconds: Shinzon, having
hailed the ship, asks Picard: "Don't you think it's time to
surrender? Why should the rest of your crew have to die?"T minus 36 seconds: "Engage."T minus 27 seconds: The Enterprise-E,
battered but unbroken, begins sliding toward the Scimitar.T minus 14 seconds: Shinzon, at first looking
confused but now seemingly amazed, orders "Hard to port!" to no avail.

Impact.

A
minute and 23 seconds later, Shinzon orders "Divert all power to the
engines . . . full reverse". The ships separate.

After
Picard discovers that the Enterprise's self-destruct is not operational, Shinzon
orders deployment of the thalaron weapon. Picard then beams over to stop
it.

Obviously, by that point,
the Scimitar was without forward shields, at least. The question is, what exactly
made them fall? Let's look at some of the numerous theories that have been
fielded to see what makes the most sense:

1.
Trek shields do not stop impacts.

Wrong
. . . we've already seen why, even in this very movie.

2.
The Scimitar's shields were unable to stand up to the impact of the
Enterprise.

Also
wrong, and we've already seen why, even in this very movie. But,
this is the absurd claim, oft-repeated and even used as a basis for some
baseless calculations that inspired this page's existence. As seen, the
concept ignores shield impact seen in the Trek canon (though the proponents
usually claim the bug-BoP rammings from "Tears" as fully shielded
incidents, claiming support while ignoring every other example).

The
Scimitar's shields simply were not there. There is no flare, no sparkle,
no glow . . . and yet, in every other way, these shields behaved precisely as
those of the Enterprise. Where did they go, and why? The
following ideas recognize the lack of shields, and try to explain it:

3.
The "hole": The Scimitar shields, at 70%, were
not covering the forward arc. In other words, the 30% missing was
basically at the front.

Though
conceivable, this concept would seem contrary to Geordi's comment that
concentrated phasers would make no difference . . . he seemed to be speaking of
phasers vs. shields. One would not imagine the phasers, even if they were
severely limited in power, being absolutely useless for a few shots against bare
hull (before the Scimitar eliminated them). Also, if Geordi's tactical
analysis screen with the tag on the front of the oval was a shield scan, then
this idea seems less likely.

On
the other hand, the area of the forward shields had taken quite a pounding,
there at the end.

4.
Shinzon had lowered the shields.

This
idea has quite a bit of merit, but there are still some hang-ups. As
Picard says, "he thinks he knows what I'm going to do" . . . Shinzon
could very well have dropped his shields in overconfidence, awaiting Picard's
surrender and planning to beam him and any remaining Reman troops aboard the
Scimitar.

However, there are 27
seconds between the Enterprise's start of forward motion and the hit to the
Scimitar. Shinzon's "hard to port" order comes in at 14 seconds
before impact . . . this means that Shinzon must've known what was going on for
at least 14 seconds. If his shields were down, ought he not have
tried to raise them? One would think so. Also, one would
think that Picard might've tried his phaser idea before taking the fight to the
enemy in such a literal fashion.

(I
commonly loathe the idea of claiming a character is behaving incompetently . . .
it's too often used as an easy escape route by those who look for the easy way
out of an argument. But, in this case, the idea has some value . . .
after all, even his "hard to port" order was silly . . . why not try
to move backward and limit the amount of damage? Why turn to port, which
potentially exposes the thalaron weapon's starboard targeting arms, or the warp
nacelles, to damage?

On
the other hand, there might've been some reason he couldn't re-raise shields in
14 seconds . . . that constitutes a more likely scenario, and avoids the
incompetence argument.)

5.
Insert technobabble.

Version One -
Threshold: There was a threshold to the Scimitar's shields, either
in regards to the focus of the attack or the energy of it.

The
focus idea doesn't work that well. While it's true that one would
expect to be attacked with weapons that have a high intensity but a low
profile (thin phaser beams, small torpedos, etc.), there's nothing to suggest
that the Scimitar's shields would let something wider through, like a cosmic
ray burst or a saucer section of a starship. Though the
Enterprise's saucer isn't quite pointy, it isn't exactly blunt,
either. Further, Picard would've had to have known about this
weakness in advance, and there's nothing in prior canon to suggest it.

The
energy threshold idea is better, but still extremely shaky. If the
shields won't try to stop an amount of energy that's able to gouge a huge gash
in the ship, they're hardly worthwhile.

Version
Two - SIF: The Enterprise's structural integrity field might've
allowed passage through the shields, perhaps having been tuned to do so en
route to the impact.

This
makes little sense . . . how would they know what to tune the SIF to?
One would expect this to be equivalent to Soran's maneuver in Generations that
allowed penetration of the Enterprise-D shielding. In other words, it's
no small thing to do . . . you basically have to have knowledge transmitted
from within the shielded ship.

While
it's true that Data had been aboard the Scimitar posing as a trusted android
hours before, there's no reason to assume he accessed the Scimitar's shield
frequencies, only to employ them long after they were needed.

And,
last but not least, one would expect the shields of the Scimitar to have
glowed a la the Enterprise-D shields in Generations.

Version
Three - The Scimitar's shields: Worf, in his tactical analysis of
the Scimitar when it was first observed by the Enterprise, reported
"primary and secondary shields". Perhaps the 70% that were
remaining were the secondary shields, and these were configured in some way
that precluded their use against impact.

I
like this idea (besides the fact that it is mine). However, there are
difficulties with it, too . . . the only similar example involving such a
configuration would be the temporal shields in "Year of Hell"[VOY],
which were not seen to guard against conventional weapons, either.
Metaphasic shielding, seen twice in late TNG, might also be considered an
example . . . but we've never seen what happens when that shield
configuration is fired upon, or collided against.

One
could argue that the secondary shields were of the "Best of Both
Worlds"[TNG] Borg configuration . . . stopping weapons utterly, yet
allowing a shuttle through during the Picard rescue. However, even the
Borg electromagnetic shields flared around the shuttlecraft.

A
similar idea to mine appeared on SpaceBattles, inspired in part by the
separate shielding systems of Star Wars. In this case, the idea
was that the Scimitar's primary and secondary shields operated as a single
system . . . the outer shields repelling KE, the inner shields halting energy,
and at the time of ramming, only the inner shields were up.
However, that idea suffers not only from some of the same issues mine does,
but also seems inconsistent . . . if the outer shields are for KE, why did
they fail first due to weapons fire? True, phasers are particle weapons,
and one would assume disruptors are, as well . . . but then the 70% shield
power of the Scimitar's energy shields would've made no difference against the
phasers.

Version
Four - Unseen, Unknown: Some sort of technobabble was employed . .
. no one knows what it was exactly, and it happened when we weren't watching.

Though
true in the deepest sense, and quite possible given the
technobabbles-of-the-week we've seen, this concept is not tenable in and of
itself.

That's an awful lot of ideas . . . but
it's little wonder they've appeared, since this is a peculiar case.

A object's shields will show a
luminous effect when collided with . . . the Scimitar shows no such effect,
therefore it was unshielded when the Enterprise-E rammed the ship.

We may
engage in all sorts of conjecture to determine how and why this is the
case, but the fact remains that it was the case.All
of the conjectures presented have some problems, though some are stronger than
others. We may never know which one is accurate. The
strongest, simplest idea in my opinion would be the notion that the
overconfident Shinzon dropped shields awaiting Picard's surrender and transport,
and then couldn't get them back up in time. But that still isn't a
perfect solution, if even just because of the fact that no one said anything about it.

((Stepping out of the
canon universe thing for a moment, it would've been far better had the situation
been written differently . . . after all, Picard and the Romulans fought the
Scimitar without behaving as if they'd ever noticed such a minute drop in his
shielding. Had Geordi responded to Picard's query about concentrated
phasers with "he still has (tiny percent) forward shields . . . our phasers
would burn out as soon as the shields fell," then the situation would
not only be far less confusing with reference to the ramming, but would also
seem more realistic. As it stands, the Scimitar is a profound leap
in combat starship design . . . capable of going up against a Sovereign and two
Valdore-type Warbirds with apparent ease. And, in the case of the
Sovereign, he was specifically targeting her to avoid her
destruction! And yet, these combat systems seem almost an
afterthought, compared to the fact that the entire ship seems built around the
thalaron planet/fleet-killer.))

In
any case, the Scimitar's shields were not up . . . this is another incident of
two unshielded ships colliding.

(Update: The Scimitar's shields are
weird. I'll try to figure out some way to fold this into the
current page.)

Many thanks and acknowledgements are in order, as there are
pictures here from numerous sources. I'd specifically like to thank G.
Kennedy of www.ditl.org, who was kind enough
to discuss and create screenshots for this page from "A Call To Arms" and
"The Raven". Thanks to D. Templar of Flare for a reminder
regarding "Cause and Effect". Thanks are also in order to Janet's
Star Trek Voyager Site for the "Year of Hell" shots and the
animation from her "Drive"
page, and
to the U.S.S. Kyushu site, with its
wonderful vidcaps from DS9 from which I created several screencaps. And,
last but not least, Stardock
Alpha.